Plugin=Plugins\OpenHardwareMonitorPlugin. You'll end up with groups of three meters, each reading and displaying a different value from OHM. and the MeasureName= in the 3rd to its corresponding measure, and repeat that for each value from OHM you want to use. That's the hard work done, just copy the group of meters from steps 1, 2 and 3 and paste them on the bottom, change their names, the sensor values, the Y position, the text, ect. NumOfDecimals=0Save it and refresh the skin (right click>Refresh Skin) and you should get something like this: Plugin=Plugins\OpenHardwareMonitorPlugin.dll Add this meter to your System.ini in notepad and edit it's name, the Hardware=, Type= and Sensor= with your values. So, this is a measure and it uses the plugin you added earlier.
*For Motherboard sensors the Hardware name is the sensor name, not the mobo name (for me its Winbond W83667H) Here I'm reading the GTX480 (1)'s GPU Core Clock, just change the Hardware=, Type= and Sensor= values for any other sensor. Get values from Open Hardware Monitor, you need the hardware name, the sensor type (Clocks, Voltages, Temperature, Load, ect,) and the sensor name (Bus Speed, CPU Total, ect.) - be sure to copy them exactly. Take care to name each meter, give it a name that relates to what its doing - it will make it easier when you come back to edit things later. You'll see what I mean.įor this simple skin there's three parts for each sensor - 1, Read the value. The String Meter is the basic meter to display any text (and value), just change its X,Y position, font size, color, alignment, ect, and the Text=*Your Text*, and give it a different name. The Image Meter can be any image (png, jpg, ect), just put the image in the skins folder and replace SolidColor= with ImageName=*Name of Image*, you can specify a different W,H to the original and Rainmeter will scale it. " to break up different sections and make the skin easier to read. This is the basic format for a Rainmter skin, each meter has a name in square brackets, a type and some arguments and is seperated by a line or two. StringStyle=Normal - Text Style (Normal, Bold, Italic)įontFace=Trebuchet MS - Any font you have installedĪntiAlias=1 - Smooths the font StringEffect=Shadow - Text Effect (None, Shadow, Border) Y=10 - Vertical PositionįontColor=255,255,255,255 - Text Colour (R,G,B,Transparent)įontSize=18 - Text Size StringAlign=Center - Text Alignment (Left, Right, Center) Meter=String - Meter Type (String for text) Y=0 - Vertical position from top left of skin (in pixels) X=0 - Horizontal Position from top left of skin (in pixels) Meter=Image - Meter Type (image for background) Update=1000 - Updates every second (1000ms) Navigate to the Rainmeter Skins folder (Documents\Rainmeter\Skins), create a new folder in there (call it OHM). dll in Program Files (x86)\Rainmeter\Plugins depending which version your running.Īt its simplest there's measures and meters, measures measure things and meters display what's measured. dll goes in "Program Files\Rainmeter\Plugins", the 32Bit. I did this for my 2 480's.Įdit: It seems filesonic link is unavailable, I found the plugin Here attached to the last post. *If you have two or more of the same hardware you'll need to rename them for Rainmeter to read each, just right click on the hardware name > Rename and add a 1,2 or 3, ect. You need a program to read the sensors, Open Hardware Monitor seems the easiest to work with so I'm using that, grab it and open it - any of the values shown are available to Rainmeter. Check the guides on to see what else you can do. This is a simple skin to read and display a sensor/clock speed, ect, easy to customize though once you've got the basics. Rainmeter has the ability to read and display pretty much any sensor\load\clockspeed\voltage on any system but no one makes configs to display them all or select a few because every system has different hardware\sensors so they aren't really transferable, you have to make your own - here's how. First see Toransu's excellent guide to Rainmeter stickied in the Art/Graphics section: